A playoff system for college football? Don't hold your breath, says BCS director

View full sizeThe Associated PressPete Wozniak spray paints the BCS Championship logo on the field at University of Phoenix Stadium on Friday in Glendale Ariz. Auburn is scheduled to play Oregon in the championship NCAA college football game tonight.

SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. -- Major college football's postseason is more likely to return to the old bowl system, which didn't guarantee a No. 1 vs. No. 2 matchup, than to start using a playoff in the next eight years.

BCS executive director Bill Hancock told reporters at a Football Writers Association of America event on Monday that in 2012 he expects the conference commissioners to begin discussing possible changes to the BCS beyond the 2014 postseason.

The BCS is in the first year of a television contract with ESPN that runs through the 2013 season. Any major changes to the system would go into effect for the 2014 season and 2015 bowls.